Posts by Spencer DeBurgh (Page 113)

So Friday and Saturday, for me, are a couple of days away from the office. What am I doing? The weather is ideal. Sunny, not too much humidity. So what am I doing? Homework. Down in the basement, banging away at the computer to finish another pap…

In Family Bible time we recently found ourselves reading selections from Thomas Watson’s sermons on the Ten Commandments. In typical Puritan fashion he pulls the sweetest points out of the smallest portions of text. Watson preached several se…

Don’t you love toast and jam? Linda came back from Montana with a gift for us. A jar of huckleberry jam. Do you have a taste or a food that brings back warm memories? When we lived in Spokane we would get huckleberry jam every time we headed…

I enjoyed reading this technical, over-my-head, but interesting article about psychiatry. The author is Charles Barber. Dr. Barber worked with the homeless mentally ill in New York City for 10 years. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University…

Martyn Lloyd-Jones is one of my heroes. This is a snippet from MLJ about preaching the gospel. It describes precisely how I felt yesterday as I did just that at Racine Bible Church. “There are certain things which have to be said over and over a…

Kids. They grow up. As they get bigger, time gets faster. If yours are older than ours you are saying, “Yeah. Tell me about it.” If yours are younger than ours you are saying, “Yeah. That is what they tell me.” This came to me again, last week, d…

I just came across this yesterday. It goes well with the quotes I posted this week about self. G.K. Chesterton relates this witty conversation. He was in his publisher’s office discussing certain persons with his publisher. It will make…

This short thought really gets to me. I have felt its truth in my life as I have learned to look to the Lord. “While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves – blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had n…

I watched the Rick Warren interviews. I found them revealing about both candidates. What I really enjoyed was watching them again over spaghetti. At dinner last night, I played about thirty minutes worth of clips on the notebook. We paused …

Today was a great day. Some days I study all day. That is a profound pleasure. Some days I spend counseling with people neck deep in problems. That has its challenges but also its own personal joys. Some days I head to the hospital to c…